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To be furious at my spineless dad?!

190 replies

LocoChanel · 05/05/2019 20:36

I was attending a friends wedding yesterday 4 hours away from where I live, but only 15 minutes from where some of my family live. I was supposed to stay at my sisters after the wedding, as she was only a short drive away but at 4pm she text me and said she thinks they might have norovirus in the house as three of them were very ill from both ends. Being 29 weeks pregnant it obviously would be stupid for me to stay there given those circumstances. I didn't see her text until about 7.30pm, at which point I rang my dad and explained and asked if I could stay at his. He started to say yes of course, then I heard his wife in the background, he mumbled to wait a second and then said he'd call me back. I assumed all was ok but then at 8.30pm I get a text saying I can't stay as it wasn't pre-arranged. I text back and just said to not worry about clean sheets or tidy house, I was exhausted and would literally just need a bed or sofa to pass out on if at all possible, again he replies that his wife doesn't like plans that aren't pre-arranged and it won't be possible and apologising profusely. I didn't have anyone else in the area I could ask, and I didn't have enough money for a hotel so I just ended up starting the drive home and stopped for a few hours sleep in a couple of service stations.

AIBU to be so annoyed? I know it's not their fault that my sister was ill and that I couldn't afford a hotel, but the fact I literally heard him saying yes just to be told no by his wife has really wound me up. Who is that spineless they can't say to their partner that of course their child can stay even if it's not pre-arranged?

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SnowyAlpsandPeaks · 05/05/2019 21:17

I can’t believe a women would do this to a pregnant women. Her behaviour is disgusting and your father needs a back bone. Yes everyone says a man should support his wife, but over his pregnant daughter? No sorry that is so wrong.

Coyoacan · 05/05/2019 21:18

When I was young and adventurous I was hitch-hiking in Canada with a friend. We went to visit his brother and he didn't invited us to stay but put back out on the road at dusk. We were then picked up by a young black man who claimed to hate white people (we were white) and invited us back to his home for the night where he gave us supper and breakfast the next day.

Sometimes we do better with the kindness of strangers.

AtrociousCircumstance · 05/05/2019 21:20

Weak, spineless, pathetic, devoid of proper ethics or principles, selfish, myopically self-absorbed.

Sorry OP 😞Flowers

Mayalready · 05/05/2019 21:21

My df /sm won a large amount of cash. Sm announced I wasn't to ever be invited. Df stood by her.
Nc for 20 years.
Some men are total doormats.
Welcome to the doormat for df club op.

Sallycinammonbangsthedruminthe · 05/05/2019 21:21

I am really sorry OP...your father should be ashamed of himself and the stepcow,,,horrible bag of shite of a woman....disgraceful they treated you this way...

Mayalready · 05/05/2019 21:21

Missed out bought a new house and I +dc weren't to be invited.

eggsandwich · 05/05/2019 21:21

He won’t be getting the father of the year award.

You know what? when you give birth to your little one I wouldn’t even bother to tell him you’ve had the baby, if he said why not? just say I’m surprised you wanted to know.

INeedAFlerken · 05/05/2019 21:22

Wow.

That's awful.

I too would send the suggested text. I'd also probably add I wasn't sure our relationship could recover after that...

IvanaPee · 05/05/2019 21:22

Invited to what?

GunpowderGelatine · 05/05/2019 21:24

29 weeks pregnant is what does it for me! Any other situation and I'd be a bit more empathetic towards such spineless behaviour

Sorry but I can't stay quiet in regard to this statement.

The safety and comfort of women is not worth more just because she's carrying a foetus. A non-pregnant woman also shouldn't have had to sleep in her car in a service station.

YANBU. It's dangerous and cold, but not nearly as dangerous as driving when tired so it's the lesser of two evils really. But being pregnant to me doesn't make this any more shocking

LagunaBubbles · 05/05/2019 21:26

Yanbu, not prearranged? What a load of nonsense. Families don't do that to each other.

DramaRamaLlama · 05/05/2019 21:27

Send him a text telling him how disappointed you are. Terrible behaviour on his part.

Sleepycatinthesun · 05/05/2019 21:27

Mum died, my ‘Dad’ moved his bit on the side in after 4 months. I spoke up about how quick it was and I was cut out of his life straight away, as his new ‘partner’ wasn’t to be disrespected. My brother was still living at home at that point, within six months he’d be told to vacate his room as it was needed for her grandchildren,
OP some men are spineless cunts unfortunately who would rather keep the person who’s keeping their dick wet over their children so you are better off without him.
I’m absolutely sure it will come back and bite then on the arse at some point, mine hasn’t seen his only grandchildren (my kids) for 4 years now and he’s apparently not bothered. Give him the gift of NC he deserves.

thelastgoldeneagle · 05/05/2019 21:27

Yy, Gunpowder.

GunpowderGelatine · 05/05/2019 21:28

I think you need to tell him how you feel OP. Has he even checked on you or asked where you stayed in the end?

N0Time · 05/05/2019 21:28

This is exactly the kind of shit my so called Father does, pathetic really. It took me a good while to get my head round it.
Some men think only with their dicks and it makes them behave like them too!!

GunpowderGelatine · 05/05/2019 21:29

Sleepy Thanks that's awful. I have to say I hear about an alarmingly high number of men who love another woman in quickly after their wife dies. Yet widows feel obliged to never meet any man ever again in some sense of loyalty Sad

GunpowderGelatine · 05/05/2019 21:29

*move not love

JaneEyre07 · 05/05/2019 21:30

To be honest, that's unforgivable. He could at the very least offered to pay for a hotel seeing as his wife was being such a bitch.

I'm so sorry Flowers

Passthecherrycoke · 05/05/2019 21:31

What a wimp. I’d give him whatfor too. And tell your sister

TheBigFatMermaid · 05/05/2019 21:32

I have been BC with my Dad for many years due to similar behaviour. I asked nothing of him, as I knew from growing up I would get fuck all anyway, but I would ring and his wife would without fail say 'What do you want?'.

TheBigFatMermaid · 05/05/2019 21:33

Clearly I mean NC and cannot type!

64632K · 05/05/2019 21:34

So very very wrong, u r definitely NBU, what a pathetic man and what a heathen of a woman. No one, be they Male or Female be treated like that, let alone a heavily pregnant woman. He has put his own daughter and unborn grandchild at serious risk of harm here just because he can't stand up to her.

arethereanyleftatall · 05/05/2019 21:36

Isnt the person to blame, the step mum?

Disfordarkchocolate · 05/05/2019 21:37

Perfect @Skiptheskip, I'd send it to his wife too. At least you know she won't be angling to be called Grandma.

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